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Cervera de Pisuerga information

Amid spectacular surroundings, some 1,000 metres
above sea level, ringed by mountains and reservoirs, stands the
town of Cervera de Pisuerga, near the source of the river Carrión.

The town was the manor of the Counts of Siruela and fell on one
of the Roman roads towards the Cantabrian Sea, which is why it
preserves vestiges of its historic past. Outstanding in the town
are the square, embellished with stone columns from the 16th and
17th centuries; and the church of Santa María del Castillo,
a Gothic work from the 16th century which has been declared a
National Monument, relevant in which is the funeral chapel of
Santa Ana, with its Hispano-Flemish reredos featuring a panel
by Juan de Flandes, La Adoración de los Reyes. Near the
town is the hermitage of San Vicente and at a distance of three
kilometres, the Fuentes Carrionas Parador Nacional hotel, which
sits in a landscape dotted with mountain lakes and enormous peaks.